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SUPPORT RELIEF EFFORT FOR OUR PEOPLE
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN
(THE POEM)
NVASEKIE KONNEH THANKS
THE COMMUNITY
LIMANY PREPARES FOR
ELECTION
By Issa Fofana
President Roberta Patricia Rashid And The ULAA Of Today!
Bedell Speaks!
Handing Over Taylor, "If Liberia Asks"
By Tarty
Teh
And Justice for All
By Ramses K.Nah
Inaugural
Message from Vamba S. FOFANA
THE
EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVE AFTER THEM: THE CASE OF TAYLOR’S NOMINEES
BY MAMBU JAMES KPARGOI, II
Bridging
Liberians into the 21st Century
By
Ramses
K.Nah
Watching the Time: A Message to
the Rising Generation (Part I)
By Alvin J. Teage
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The
Rational behind Tingba’s Outrage
It
may seem silly and lowdown that some petty man will try to build their
notoriety by devoting to discredit the notable and respectable record of
Nvasekie Konneh even if means self destruction.
LIBERIA:
Grenade explosion kills two at new disarmament camp
MONROVIA, 18 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - The opening of a new disarmament camp in
northern Liberia this week, was marred by a grenade explosion which killed
two fighters loyal to former president Charles Taylor, a spokesman for the
disarmament programme said on Wednesday.
U.N.
disarm program in Liberia growing
Monrovia, Liberia, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The U.N. Mission in Liberia has
brought its disarmament and demobilization program to the strife-torn West
African nation's remote Nimba county.
200
ex-government soldiers surrender weapons in Liberia
Dakar, Senegal, 08/18 - More than 200 ex-soldiers who fought for exiled
President Charles Taylor have surrendered their weapons to UN peacekeepers
in the remote town of Ganta, Nimba County, on the first day of the latest
stage to disarm and demobilize combatants in Liberia.
My
Return to Philadelphia
 Having
completed my studies in Lansing, Michigan, it is nice to be back with
other Liberians. So much has changed here. The number of Liberians has
increased considerably. Liberians are making progress. Liberian symbols
are everywhere. And with a few improvements, Liberians could raise the bar
for others to follow.
Liberia:
UN extends disarmament to birthplace of country's long ...
 18
August 2004 – The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)
has brought its efforts to restore peace to the very region where the
prolonged civil war first began 15 years ago, launching its latest
disarmament and demobilization program in the strife-torn West African
country's remote Nimba county.
Liberian
ex-fighters riot over education benefits
Monrovia, Liberia, 08/17 - Scores of Liberian ex-combatants rioted
in Monrovia Monday demanding education benefits promised them after their
disarmament to the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
AFPL
Liberian fighters disarmed in Taylor's former stronghold, Nimba
MONROVIA, Aug 17 (AFP) - Liberia's disarmament process arrived
Tuesday in the northern town of Ganta, a stronghold of former president
Charles Taylor's militia. The disarmament site was crowded early in the
morning by militia fighters keen to hand in their arms to a Bangladeshi
contingent of UNMIL, the UN mission in the west African state.
Ex-Combatants
Pickets Monrovia Streets-Demands DDRR Benefits
"We want our money; we tire with lies and big, big cars. If they
don't give us our benefits we will make them pay for its. We will burn
their cars so all of us will suffer. Then they will know how suffering can
hurt," said one ex-combatants who was apparently leading the match
from Vai Town on Bushrod Island toward Bassa County Capitol Hill to link
up with another group that was holding out at the Headquarters of the
NCDDRR near the Monrovia City Hall on Tubman Boulevard.
Amnesty
International: Human Rights Progress Slow in Liberia
A leading rights group has praised U.N. efforts to demobilize Liberian
fighters, but says progress on improving human rights in the west African
nation is too slow.
LIBERIA:
A shattered nation on a long road to recovery
 MONROVIA,
17 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - Liberians, impatient for better times ahead, have
begun the slow process of rebuilding their country, shattered by 14 years
of intermittent civil war that ended one year ago.
The guns have fallen silent, 15,000 UN peacekeeping troops patrol the
country's main towns and highways and tens of thousands of refugees have
spontaneously begun to return home.
LIBERIA:
WFP cuts food rations for second time as funds run out
MONROVIA, 16 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - Dwindling food stocks and a shortfall in
donor funding have forced the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to cut rations
for more than 700,000 Liberians for the second time in two months, a
senior WFP official said on Monday.
I.E
and Barrolle USA Game Falling Apart
$34,000 mismanaged, official alleges.
The Invincible Eleven (I.E) and Mighty Barrolle soccer game play every
year in celebration of Liberia’s Independent in the United States is on
the verge of falling apart if nothing is done to bring the conflicting
parties together so the game can be play at a single venue.
Liberian
Launches Book on Decentralization
 A
prominent Liberian political activist, Lawyer, and educator, Yarsuo
Weh-Dorliae, will this Saturday, August 21, 2004, launch his new book in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The book, carrying the timely and relevant
title "PROPOSITION 12 FOR DECENTRALIZED GOVERNANCE IN LIBERIA: Power
Sharing for Peace and Progress," will be launched at the University
of Pennsylvania's Newman Center at 3720 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
19104.
Nvasekie:
It’s All Wrong, Nothing Correct
Hence once again, I would try to follow said principle as I attempt to
address the emotionally charged loaded language of Mr. Nvasekie Konneh’s
paradoxical “360 degrees off course”, (http://limany.org/360degree.html)
which was only meant to “poison the well” but ironically termed as
a response to my article (http://limany.org/afting2.html),
Bridging the Ethnic Divide-Answers to my Critic.
Liberian
song hit the market, "Running" By Eddie Africa
He took his
boyhood memory from dusty Kakata, Liberia, and turned his talent
into a Afro-Jazz musical
world beat that appeal to all
nationality. Eddie Africa new six track CD, "Runining" comes on
august 7, add to the list of growing Liberian talents in the diasporas.
360 DEGREES
OFF COURSE
(Responding To Aagon Tingba)
Nvasekie Konneh..Since Mr. Tingba
failed to address the main issues of the discussion, I will do so for him
again. But before I do that, let me offer some clarifications on some of
the issues he raised, even though they have nothing to do with the
demonstrations in question.
Gios,
Mandingoes Smoke Peace Pipe - Kruah, Konneh Are Forerunners
Nimba County citizens resident in Monrovia have been meeting to
resolve differences amongst the five tribes of the county. For some time
now, the five tribes of Nimba including Gbee, Mano, Gio, Mandingo and
Krahn have harbored differences that have persisted for more than a
decade.
One
year on, Taylor's Nigerian exile growing uncomfortable
 The
former Liberian president is running out of funds and has been unable to
pay some of his staff their salaries for the last three months, a Liberian
official who accompanied his boss into exile told AFP on Tuesday.
LIBERIA:
Rebels dig in at rubber plantation
More than 1,000 former fighters of the LURD rebel movement are holed up in
Liberia's second largest rubber plantation and are refusing to turn in
their guns to UN peacekeepers, a member of Liberia's transitional
parliament said on Tuesday.
Aafia
Siddiqui bought diamonds from Liberia for Qaeda
UN report says six top Qaeda operatives were in Liberia to launder money
through diamonds before September 11 attacks
Close
Relationship to US Did Not Help Liberia Much
 n
their brave film "Liberia: An Uncivil War" Jonathan Stack and
James Brabazon make us witnesses to the continuing implosion in one of
Africa's failed states. But they do something else as well in the
documentary that has its premiere tonight on the Discovery Times Channel.
They also show how the United States has turned its back on the land it
created as a colony in 1821.
EDUCATION-LIBERIA:
Civil War Leaves School System in Tatters ...
MONROVIA, June 16 (IPS) - The Day of the African Child, celebrated
Wednesday, is a sober occasion for Liberia, where fourteen years of
intermittent civil war have undermined the education system on which many
of the country’s children depend.
LIBERIA:
Government seeks foreign investment to revive mains ...
MONROVIA, 6 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - The government of Liberia is seeking a
private overseas investor to help restore mains electricity to the capital
Monrovia at an estimated cost of US$14 million, Joseph Maya, the managing
director of the state-run Liberia Electricity Corporation said.
KEEPING
THE NTGL UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
In the eyes of some Liberians, the recent allegations made by a senior
official in the incumbent interim government, the National Transitional
Government of Liberia (NTGL), in effect that the country’s very scarce
financial resources were being “misapplied” [squandered] by the
Charles Gyude Bryant administration instead of providing basic social
services for the people or even paying longstanding salary arrears to its
employees, is nothing more than the issue of a team player gone berserk
for one reason or the other.
LIBERIA
ON PARIS MOU WHITE LIST
THE Liberian Registry says that the 2003 Annual Report of the Paris
Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control shows Liberia to be the
best-performing open register on the MoU's White List.
LIBERIA:
Leadership battle in LURD leads to fighting on streets of Monrovia
MONROVIA, 4 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - A long-running power struggle for the
leadership of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD)
rebel movement has spilled over into violence on the streets of Monrovia,
forcing UN peacekeeping forces to send in tanks.
LIBERIA:
Security fears and poor infrastructure will limit repatriation of refugees
MONROVIA, 4 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - Concerns over security in some parts of
rural Liberia and the battered state of infrastructure will limit the
number of refugees able to return home from neighbouring West African
countries later this year, the UN refugee agency has warned.
Funding
shortfall could spark food crisis in Liberia, UN warns
ensure that some 500,000 Liberians have enough to eat in coming months
Liberia
to deport 20,000 Ghanaians?
Just days after Libya started an enmasse
deportation of illegal Ghanaian immigrants from their soil; Liberia has
also announced their intentions of ridding their country of the hundreds
of thousands of illegal immigrants.
Liberia's
Taylor gave aid to Qaeda, UN probe finds
The senior Al Qaeda operative captured in Pakistan last week met
Charles Taylor, who was president of Liberia at the time, in the years
before and after Sept. 11, 2001, and received refuge from the former U.S.
ally while planning further terrorist operations, according to U.S.
intelligence officials and United Nations investigators.
COTE
D IVOIRE: UN finds 99 bodies in mass graves after rebel clashes
ABIDJAN, 3 Aug 2004 (IRIN) - UN human rights experts have uncovered three
mass graves packed with at least 99 bodies in the northern town of Korhogo
where heavy clashes between rival rebel factions took place in June, the
UN mission in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) said.
GUINEA:
Refugee influx adds fuel to AIDS crisis in southeast Guinea
NZEREKORE, 26 Jul 2004 (IRIN) - There are only two AIDS testing centres in
the whole of Guinea and only one pilot project supplying anti-retroviral
drugs to a group of 50 people.
UN
official hails work of Chinese peacekeepers in Liberia - UN
News Centre
As part of celebrations marking Chinese Army Day, a senior United Nations
official in Liberia has paid tribute to the “commitment and
dedication” of Chinese peacekeepers working in the war-ravaged West
African country.
"Lofans,
I want to be your Senior Senator"
 Massaquoi
Morlu Kamara: Lofans,
as I have mentioned, I want to be your Senior Senator. I believe that I
will work tirelessly to represent you fully in Monrovia. I want to work
with you to build the kind of Lofa County that will be the envy of others
in Liberia. I believe that it is not just enough to regain the status of
Lofa as the breadbasket of Liberia, but we also need to make Lofa a place
for academic excellence, job opportunities, foreign investment, and a
first choice of business location for Liberian owned businesses. Full
Press Release
Bridging
the Ethnic Divide- Answers to my Critic
I read with complete interest but
disappointment the “author”, Mr. NvaseKie Konneh’s response to my
deliverables at the King Zolu Doma’s lecture series. The speech, which
was published on the Limany’s web site on July 22, 2004 (http://limany.org/afting1.html)
under the caption, “The dynamics of the
Liberian war: (FULL)
WHERE
WERE YOU WHEN WE MARCHED FOR FREEDOM
Are
there no more collective calls for matching [marching] on Washington? How
about collectively matching [marching] to sustain the peace in Liberia and
for the establishment of war crimes tribunal? Well, history is watching
and I am only trying to play a little role of a gadfly."
(FULL)
A
Fighter Hands In A Gun In Gbanga
MONROVIA, - The United Nations has poured 15,000 peacekeepers into Liberia
and more than 54,000 former combatants have been disarmed, but UN
officials admit that not everyone is handing in a weapon and vast tracts
of the West African country remain inaccessible to UN patrols.
“Readiness”
Before Conducting Any Elections
(Press Release)
To conduct free and fair elections, the electorate
should be well informed of the issues involved and the candidates
participating. To be able to form a well sound judgment, one ought to be
part and parcel of the process. By this, we mean one has to be present at
most meetings to appreciate and identify the players and issues involved.
It is not acceptable anymore to just show up and cast votes. (FULL)
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